Eco-Self in Early Modern English Literature

AvElizabeth Gruber

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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The Eco-Self in Early Modern English Literature tracks an important shift in early modern conceptions of selfhood, arguing that the period hosted the birth of a new subset of the human, the eco-self, which melds a deeply introspective turn with an abiding sense of humans’ embedment in the world. A confluence of cultural factors produced the relevant changes. Of paramount significance was the rapid spread of literacy in England and across Europe: reading transformed the relationship between self and world, retooled moral reasoning, and even altered human anatomy. This book pursues the salutary possibilities, including the ecological benefits, of this redesigned self by advancing fresh readings of texts by William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, John Webster, and Margaret Cavendish. The eco-self offers certain refinements to ecological theory by renewing appreciation for the rational, deliberative functions that distinguish humans from other species.

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-12-01
Mått:156 x 234 x 13 mm
Vikt:440 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Environmental Humanities in Pre-modern Cultures
Antal sidor:238
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781041187745

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Dr. Elizabeth D. Gruber is a Professor of English at Lock Haven University in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania. Teaching and research interests include early modern literature, Shakespearean adaptation, and ecocriticism and theory. Recent publications focus on the productive conjunctions of ecocriticism and early modern studies. Several articles as well as an earlier monograph Renaissance Ecopolitics from Shakespeare to Bacon: Rethinking Cosmopolis (Routledge, 2017), advance ecocritical readings of diverse early modern texts. The goal of the present volume, The Eco-Self in Early Modern English Literature, is to track the birth of a new subset of the human, bringing out its eco-psychological implications and tracking their persisting importance.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: Ourselves Our Renaissance. The Verdancy of Critical Practice, Chapter 1: The Verdant Imagination in Shakespeare's Sonnets, Chapter 2: The Intermediating Self in Doctor Faustus, Chapter 3: Resisting Self-Erasure in Antony and Cleopatra, Chapter 4: Wrestling with the Eco-Self in The Duchess of Malfi, Chapter 5: Ecology and Selfhood in The Blazing World, Bibliography, Index.